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title: B'er Deer say: 'Ki! it look like you gwine fer tie me; it look like… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: B'er Deer say: 'Ki! it look like you gwine fer tie me; it look like we gwine fer de gal tie!' Who acts: B'er Deer, it, you, Hullo. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 90

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B'er Deer say: 'Ki! it look like you gwine fer tie me; it look like we gwine fer de gal tie!'

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**Who acts:** B'er Deer, it, you, Hullo · **What happens:** say, look, gwine, tie · **To what, where:** Ki, me, fer gal tie · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (B'er Deer, it, you, Hullo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:1:90
# text = B'er Deer say: 'Ki! it look like you gwine fer tie me; it look like we gwine fer de gal tie!'
1	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Ki	ki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gwine	gwine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
14	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
23	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	gal	gal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | B'er Deer | Ki |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ki=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **gwine** | present | you |  |  |  |  | f *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tie** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 5 | **look** | present | Hullo | fer gal tie |  |  |  | like we | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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